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When I first saw Louis Glanzman’s paintings of twelve women in the gospels whose names are so familiar, something happened inside me. After a lifetime of knowing all about these women I felt, at last, that I had actually met them. Indeed I had. They were people I already knew: homemakers, sex workers, child runaways, crones, teachers, mothers, senior citizens…all of them knew Jesus. All of them were achetypes who reflected the journeys, struggles, joys and dreams of women today.–Edwina Gateley
Includes 12 full-color paintings by Louis Glanzman, one of Americas most honored portraitists. He is famed for eightly marvelous Time magazine covers as well as his beloved drawings for the Pippi Longstocking series.
Contents
Elizabeth
Anna the Prophetess
Mary
The Widows Mite
Martha
The Infirm Woman
The Samaritan Woman
The Woman Caught in Adultery
The Woman with the Hemorrhage
The Daughter of Jairus (on the front cover)
The Penitent Woman
Mary Magdalene
Edwina Gateley is the founder of the Volunteer Missionary Movement which sends lay missionaries to three continents, and of Genesis House in Chicago, a residential and outreach program for women in prostitution. Her books include a Mystical Heart, A warm Most Salty God, and Psalms of a Laywoman.
Louis Glanzman is one of America’s most acclaimed portraitists. His work is part of many collections from the Smithsonian to Independence Hall to the Civil War Museum. He has won numerous awards, and is known to millions for his eighty unforgettable covers on Time Magazine. His paintings of women in scripture enrich the book Soul Sisters, written by Edwina Gateley
